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If Romana could've gotten busy in the TARDIS, she might've stuck around longer.
You said that this article had spoilers for the Wedding of River song but I can't actually see any.
Another good article, it is nice to see someone writing Doctor Who content (and the fact that you are a Doctor Who fan does make you that much cooler). I've always been a fan of River Song and the fact that she can (and does) show him up is my favourite part of her character. The best example of this is in the episode when he keeps getting annoyed that she is making corrections to his flying of the Tardis.
It's well known that Mr. Baker...rather liked the ladies. There's serious hints that there was a relationship between him and Leela, for example.
And then there's Tegan Jovanka and 5, Perpugilliam Brown and 6, and very obviously Sarah Jane/4, Rose/10-11.
But given Fred was President of Gallifrey before the war, I think she did rather well away from the Renegade. Especially as it's the same post that the Doctor turned down in The Deadly Assassin.
And Susan? The original Doctor's grand-daughter?
I don't think he's ever been chaste, more chased.
There's one at the very end. Minor, and kind of obvious, given the title of the episode, but still. I hate to catch people unawares and diminish their enjoyment of the show at all.
Susan may have called him "grandfather," but it wasn't taken as being literal.
Also, are you saying that the actor had a way with the ladies, or the character? Because if it's the latter, I have to completely disagree.
I just saw the sentence in question. I somehow missed it when reading the article, sorry.
River Song / Melody Pond is interesting but now that we know how her story starts & ends and why she is allowed to walk out of prison without being put into a higher security area; I just don't see how Moffat will make her a more interesting character. Especially while maintaining the "they meet in reverse order" story structure.
I'm more interested in what Jenny, the Doctor's Daughter, has been up to. She wasn't thought up by Moffat, Stephen Greenhorn has that honor, but he has said that he would be interested in her getting her own spin-off or at the very least making a reappearance in the show. Considering how the Doctor is supposed to be dead and all it would make a great launching point next season for him to happen across her, whom he believes is dead. Especially when you consider how he's left Rory and Amy on their own for so long.
A bit from column A, a bit from column B. And I forgot about Dr. Grace Holloway and 8. Certainly something going on there.
1,2,7 were more paternal. 3...I think there was a May/December with Jo Grant - that's certainly hinted at in the acting.
Given Romana 2 IRL ended up with Richard "I am the Lord of Atheism" Dawkins though, I think Romana got the better deal.
Speaking of story arcs getting brushed aside, that's an absolutely sterling example.
Sorry, but I simply don't agree on that at all. (Well, the Doc shagging the help, not the Richard Dawkins thing. Don't even know who that is. :))
Perhaps other folks can chime in on whether or not they see the Classic Docs as chaste or not?
"7, really?"
*from the other side of the room*
Yeah, I enjoy River's flirting with Smith mainly because he flirts back. And since we still don't know the full story of their true relationship with each other, it makes it all the more fun.
Edit: I agree with root that there was something going on between Grace Holloway and 8 on screen. I haven't seen enough old Who episodes to make a informed opinion on anything else but Leela running around in a leather skin tight clothing is asking for trouble from a male designated driver!
Since I've only watched since Christopher Ecclestone, and since Billie Piper is smoking hot (hellooo Secret Diary...), it rather irks me when he gets flirty with someone else.
And River is really quite annoying.
This is where I think there's a real problem with the whole "unreality" situation.
I don't think he "shagged" them.
I do think he was "intimate" with them.
Given alien physiology, there's still quite a distinction.
And certainly not all...but if he can "love", then he can surely "lust".
And 4 was certainly lusty.
But, of course, then we're into the 9/Jack/Rose triangle...because 9 was definitely flirting with both. Or the 10/Master 'ship.
It'd be honestly easier looking at whether Homer Simpson and Maude Flanders ever thought about it.
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I've seen a fair amount of Classic Who and I can't say any of the Doctor's previous incarnations ever showed any form of sexual/romantic interest towards the companions until David Tennant and Rose. It's probably more to do with our own perceptions of the characters, given the fact that the females were there simply as eye candy for the viewers.
Or maybe I just watch these things with a fair too innocent eye. Either way, I think so long as the Doctor continues to be bemused by the prospect of romantic relationships, this particular theme will be fine ("She wants to take you out for texting and scones" is a perfect example of how the Doctor just doesn't get it.) I have no problem with other characters trying to force themselves upon him, to a certain extent, but should he respond in kind, I think my childhood shall be ruined forever. Something about it just feels wrong, like a trusted guardian abusing the children...
I think she was supposed to be his Granddaughter, If only because she mentions to rose that he was a dad once and later clarifies that it was all taken away from him in the Time War. Along with refusing to answer Amy's questions about him having children.
That's why I quite like the notion of him and River. Him and one of the other companions? No, because he's in a superior position to them. They need him to save their lives, so him pushing his affections on them would be a bit...ick. But River can take care of herself quite well, thank you very much, so if they do come together, it's on equal footing. Quite fun, that.
I'm with you, though - I don't think the Doctor was ever portrayed as a sexual (or romantic) being until Tennant.
In my defence:
No sexual tension there?
(It's a subjective thing, so I won't go off on one if you say no :) )
Tegan's is especially poignant, given Amy's departure as well. "No more bloodshed"
I also would have liked it to be explained in The End of Time that the Time Lord/Lady who keeps appearing to Wilfred Mott, Donna's Grandfather, is Susan the doctors Grand Daughter and first companion. But noticing stuff like that is what being a nerd is for.
It kinda hampers the effectiveness of the character that we already know how she dies.
Originally she wasn't going to be his grand daughter but the writers didn't think it was appropriate for an old guy and a young woman to be living together if they weren't related.
Well, I've only seen a few here and there of the old series, and getting better bit by bit, but I think I would attribute what I've seen mostly to the actor flirting with the girls rather than the Doctor flirting with them. And considering the change in times, where nowadays we're not as afraid to show a more committed character onscreen, the potential for intimacy is much higher. But then, that's a character thing. A character like Rose would be more content with the intimacy factor, being a much more emotional character than, let's say River Song. River is a much more physical and carefree character, and wouldn't let something like a little biology or rules stand in the way of her fun.
From what I've seen of Romana and Sarah Jane, however (and it's not much, I'll admit), both of them either seek to be the Doctor's equal rather than his love, in any form. And while yeah, they might seek a physical relationship once the emotional is present (which they probably would), the logical side of them might get in the way. Trying to be the Doctor's equal means having to fight with that ego, and that's no small thing.
And while he might avoid it, the Doctor certainly knows what to do--even if it's been awhile.
Insightful as always Susan! And I really must watch more of the original series. o.o
I always thought that the 4th Doctor and Romana v2 were in the sack together. That change in dynamic you mentioned - where they seemed to become equals, and the banter started. To me, that rang of how one speaks with his or her lover.
I realize a lot of that comes from the fact that the actors were in the sack, but the writers (and the writing) seemed to reflect that and imply it as well. You don't talk to your students like that - you don't talk to your friends like that either.
Well, unless they're friends with benefits.
Curious, I've seen all of those farewells and their episodes previously but never has it seemed like sexual tension to me. Poignant indeed, as you say, but nothing beyond that. I guess I've just never had that mindset, for me it's always just been two good friends parting.
I must say Tegan has always been a favourite of mine and her farewell both surprised and delighted me, it was so wonderfully sudden and unexpected and yet still completely Tegan.
Well that's a rather crude way of putting it Susan, but I suppose you're right.
Anyway personally I feel that River was a more intriguing character back when we barely knew anything about her. It's kinda like what Yahtzee once said about mysteries losing all their appeal the instant you explain them.
Doctor, Doctor,
Man I need to go back and watch more of the old series.
And, I love the Doctor and River when they start flirting. It's always so well written by Steven Moffat. That incredible man.
Is that just a theory of yours or has there been some indication that that's who she was? I was under the impression that that character had been purposefully left unexplained.
Nope I watched him in All Creatures grunt and smell before he was in Dr Who. I remember wondering when Siegfried Farnon was going to turn up in the tardis
I'll be honest, I find River Song rather grating so I didn't take this marriage as good news. And I'm still not sure how well something so immutable would fit with the whole regeneration thing. It feels weird having the Doctor married when we know that Chris E, or DT's doctors probably wouldn't have the same sort of feelings
Ah, Lalla Ward. Always had a smile that could melt my heart. Shame I can't find the video interview to go with it, but this transcript of Lalla recounting her first chat with Patrick Stewart is quite amusing. How times change!
Great article. I'm just disappointed how the River Song story arc turned out. I think it would have been much better if she had been a Time Lady from The Doctor's past that he didn't recognize. It would have fit much better and been more believable than human + human + (In the TARDIS) = Time Lord baby.
And with the talk of story arcs, it isn't really a story arc yet, but at the end of the episode "The End of Time(Part 2)", Wilfred asks The Doctor who the old lady was that kept appearing to him, and also showed her face to The Doctor before he shot the bridge/gateway machine. In that scene, after that question is asked, we see The Doctor look up and over at Donna in the background and doesn't answer the question, just continues with giving Wilf the lottery ticket present for Donna.
That to me means that the old lady was Donna, but that is a really bizarre idea. It makes me wonder, if the old lady was Donna, then how did she end up on Gallifrey in the Time War. I think it would be very interesting to have couple or three episode arc that deals with how that happened.
infact she can do a few things better than him, take flying the TARDIS the doctor has been flying it the whole time with the parking brake on.
River Song is the programme's best reason to stop watching. I'm just glad she's out of regenerations, hopefully she'll die soon.
She already died in season four. Time travel is odd like that.
As a recent american convert to the fellowship of the doctor, this column rocks and I will read it frequently. Or not, considering that we just witnessed the season finale.
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'The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on…' – The end, The Doors.
Sigmund Freud's notion of an Oedipus complex offers more than a model of human psychosexuality; it considers the rudiments of animalism – jealousy, lust, supremacy. Perhaps humankind is no less bound by these carnal desires than the animal kingdom, and all our veneers of civility have been laid to waste. It is in the hour of the sun's absence that we find ourselves – before the day breaks is the home of unchained desires.

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Special master's action to halt consolidation effort in New London criticized
New London - A day after the school district's special master put on hold the planned consolidation of the school and city finance departments, City Council President Michael Passero said he doesn't agree that Steven Adamowski has the authority to delay the merger.
Adamowski announced his plan to put the consolidation on hold at Monday's Board of Education meeting. Passero said Tuesday he wasn't aware Adamowski's announcement was going to happen.
"The City Council found out about that when he told it to the public last night at the school board meeting. He has not sat down to hear the City Council's reasons for doing what they did with the budget," Passero said. "So how he can sit there and dictate without hearing the other side of the story is beyond me."
As the district's special master appointed by the state, Adamowski has the authority to manage and allocate any federal, state and local education funds coming to the district.
"I am allocating the cost of the business office from the budget. ... It's a budget allocation decision," Adamowski said Tuesday. "Rather than dismissing the five or so staff members and the business administrator, they would be staying on, and funds would be allocated for me to retain that function."
He said the consolidation was "all part of a much larger, serious issue that the state board took into consideration when appointing me."
In April, the school board voted against its own Finance Committee's recommendation to not approve the consolidation. Nearly a month later, a motion to rescind the board's prior approval of the consolidation failed 4-2. The two who dissented in both board votes were Chairman William Morse and board member Elizabeth Garcia Gonzalez.
"I was stunned to find that the board voted on this without having a single piece of paper in front of them. It's just not good planning, and this relates to a much larger picture, personnel and curriculum, which is where the board also has statutory obligations," Adamowski said.
The City Council's Finance Committee endorsed the consolidation, which moved forward with the adoption of the 2012-13 city budget.
Passero said that when the Finance Committee of the City Council agreed to consolidate with the district, that the council freed up $500,000 by transferring the personnel in that office to the city finance department, so they would all be working under one finance director.
"The City Council made a genuine effort to free up city money for the education of our children. We put the dollars towards educating our children. For council and Board of Education members to support that, it took political courage," Passero said.
However, Adamowski said that the statutory obligations the school board has to provide are much deeper.
"This is not a situation where the board can just take over the city. It's not a situation where the city can take over the board," he said. "The only way this can be done is through a joint situation where a finance director would report to the mayor and the superintendent. This cannot be done overnight as a political action."
Ideally, if the consolidation moves forward, Adamowski said the two departments would first have to act under the same financial software system and then merge.
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And so it came to pass that on the second day of the Doctor Who Convention, a great mass of people did gather outside a venue in Cardiff, Wales. Some of them wore similar costumes to those of the people from the day before, some wore entirely new creations, and some wore their normal clothes from home. And some of them claimed to have seen…something, but they weren't sure what it was and they kept drawing on themselves. Weirdos.
Here's a collection of Whovian twosomes:
Here's a formidable lady in a Silence-proof (ish) eyepatch, and some of her sworn enemies:
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Our main objective for this trip is to try and climb Cobra Crack. It seems kind of weird thinking about that, as it's a route that's one of the very hardest trad routes in the world and who on earth would consider it a reasonable prospect to climb this in just a quick 3 week trip? Well, maybe we've got a bit carried away with the optimism but we're definitely not falling short on inspiration. The line is every bit of the "King" that you expect from seeing the videos over the years and the quality of moves are like nothing else. Mono undercuts, feet-first inverts off pinkies jams and holdless bridging. Mega!!
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We've had just under a week out in Squamish now and it's been an interesting, harsh and grounding experience. I think we've learnt a lot.
The interest:
Cobra is a hugely varied piece of climbing. It's got so many different styles of movement within one pitch and it's been a realisation that our training hasn't been as effective on the variation as one might expect. With hindsight, that's easy to see now. Also the pain factor on the route is massive. Every hold on the crux overhang brings tears to your eyes and it's pretty hard to convince yourself at times that you want to give it everything.
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The harsh:
This route ain't no push over. Despite the number of repeats for such a high end route, there's not really a feeling of "soft for the grade" or "apply the cheater-beta and it'll be fine." Every jam is pretty good for a finger jam; pretty sinker in fact. But put in the factor of no feet on a 35 degree overhang and they suddenly become painful, powerful and slightly disappointing. When we first abbed down the line our first thoughts were "man, these jams are so sinker we can never fall off this."
It's not just the moves and poor feet that are harsh, it's the nature of the red point. You can get two goes a day on the route (and that's just working moves) before skin flappers occur and the shoulders give out. To do a route like this in a short space of time seems hardcore. Yuji-we-are-not!
The Grounding:
Leading up to this trip, we've poured over information, videos and anything we could find to help us. This gives some preparation, but only a limited amount. We could see the moves and try and replicate them with some specific training but at the end of the day nothing is the same as the route and I guess this has hit us fairly hard whilst being here.
It's ok though I'm sure we can handle it, I mean the hardest finger crack we've done in the the UK is 7a+ and Honnold soloed that on-sight. Nothing like going big.


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Over the weekend I dusted off my trusty Xbox360 and figured I should give it a little bit of use before its next gen replacement arrives. While I was setting it up and preparing it for use I thought it was about time I shared the current versions of my Xbox360 tools as well as a new one that is not feature complete, but at this stage may never be.


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Blinky™: A Twisted, Psychopathic Full-Evil Bloody Robot
"Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don't worry. It's perfectly safe."
Blinky™, a wickedly evil 3D-CG animated short horror film by the Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson, won The Best Narrative Film/Video Award (live-action narrative fiction told through the medium of film/video) last week at The 2012 Vimeo Festival +Awards. Previously, Robinson broke through to great acclaim with his 3D short film, Fifty Percent Grey, which was nominated for an Oscar in 2002 and followed it up in 2006 with The Silent City, a post-apocalyptic short film starring Cillian Murphy.
Blinky™ is shot with visual execution that is truly masterful, and the story is as bloody creepy as it gets. The amazing thirteen-minute short film stars Max Records from Where The Wild Things Are and tells the story of an angst-ridden young boy, who is trapped in a well-to-do, yet toxic home environment where his parents are constantly fighting. For Christmas he requests and gets Blinky™, the latest robot friend/home helper. But will the twisted and increasingly sinister Blinky™ actually turn out to be the true friend the distraught boy desperately wants and needs? Well, so sadly, very probably not….
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The Corner Laughers take a more out-there approach on their neo-psychedelic side project, Agony Aunts. The California-based indie rockers craft more elaborate arrangements on Big Cinnamon than they did on their 2012 Laughers release, Poppy Seeds. There's still an emphasis on lush harmony vocals, although bassist-keyboards player Khoi Huynh, drummer Charlie Crabtree, and guitarist-keyboards player KC Bowman are more prominently featured, along with lead singer Karla Kane.
The 12 songs on Big Cinnamon feature rapid-fire rhymes within nonsensical lyrics that could have sprung from the mind of Dr. Seuss. If he had live in Haight-Ashbury in the late 1960s. The childlike and impossibly catchy "Twenty-four Mergansers" sets lines like, "Chapel of the Chimes, you're the apple, the orange, the lime/Disturbing me inside the badger's lair" to energetic guitars. Drawing inspiration from a 1950s TV Western's theme, Agony Aunts combine imagery of The Lone Ranger and William Tell in "Back To Back Bill." "Uranium My Love" remains engaging even while delving into a world of beakers and isotopes, and "You're So Vague" lampoons some of the cheesier rock of the 1970s.
"Cool Fresh Nights," "Family Drugs," and the title track come across as power pop with singing that evokes The Hollies, while the more sinister "We Got That Jeckyl" could have been recorded by The Beatles in their Abbey Road era. The easy-going "Laughing At The World" is an immediate charmer, and like most of Big Cinnamon, its meaning is unclear. Those discovering Huynh, Crabtree, Bowman, and Kane via Agony Aunts are likely to check out these musicians' regular band for more fun. They won't be disappointed.


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"Hello, is this the Sheriff's Office?"
"Yes. What can I do for you?"
"I'm calling to report 'bout my neighbor Virgil Smith....He's
hidin' marijuana inside his firewood! Don't quite know how he gets
it inside them logs, but he's hidin' it there."
"Thank you very much for the call, sir."
The next day, the Sheriff's Deputies descend on Virgil's house.
They searched the shed where the firewood is kept. Using axes, they
busted open every piece of wood, but find no marijuana. They
sneered at Virgil and left.
Shortly, the phone rings at Virgil's house.
"Hey, Virgil! This here's Floyd....Did the Sheriff come?"
"Did they chop your firewood?"
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Survey Finds U.S. Majority Favors Abortion Restrictions
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion poll found that more than 8 in 10 Americans — 83% — favor significant restrictions on abortion.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A new survey shows that most Americans support strict regulations on abortion, with half of Americans saying that abortion should never be permitted or permitted only in rare cases.
"After four decades of legalized abortion in this country, Americans have had ample time to understand that abortion has terrible consequences," said Carl Anderson, head of the Knights of Columbus, which commissioned the poll.
"They understand abortion's true legacy — a child loses life, and parents lose a child. And after witnessing the effects of abortion for the past 40 years, Americans are not legally or morally comfortable with that legacy," he said Jan. 9.
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion conducted the survey of 1,246 adults in the continental U.S. from Dec. 4-6, 2012. It claims a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
The poll found that more than 8 in 10 Americans — 83% — favor significant restrictions on abortion.
Of that 83%, 10% of respondents said abortion should never be permitted, 12% said abortion should be allowed only to save the life of the mother, and 34% said abortion should be allowed only in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother.
These cases make up a very small portion of abortions sought in the U.S., where abortion is generally permitted, and more than one million legal abortions take place each year.
A 2005 report published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research organization formerly associated with abortion provider Planned Parenthood, found that only 1% of women seeking abortions said they did so because the child was conceived in rape, and even fewer sought abortion because the child was conceived in incest.
The report did not record the number of women who said they sought an abortion because their lives were in danger, though 12% cited physical health problems as a motivation.
The Marist poll found some support for legal abortion. About 27% of respondents said abortion should be limited to the first three months of pregnancy at most; 6% would limit abortion to the first six months of pregnancy, while 11% said abortion should be available at any time.
The survey found that 43% of respondents describe themselves as pro-life, while 57% say they are "pro-choice." Among Catholics, whose faith rejects abortion, only 45% say they are pro-life. About 59% of practicing Catholics say they are pro-life, compared to only 25% of non-practicing Catholics.
About 58% of Americans say abortion is morally wrong. Respondents generally rejected the idea that laws must choose whether to protect the unborn or pregnant mothers, with 84% saying that laws can protect both.
"It is time for our country to chart a new course on this issue — a course that protects both the mother and the child," Anderson said.
Lee Miringoff of The Marist Poll said the survey's detailed questions about respondents' specific views on abortion allowed Marist to "go beyond" pro-life and pro-choice labels to achieve "a more complete picture of what Americans actually think about this issue."
The wide support for pro-life issues has drawn media attention.
A Jan. 14 Time magazine cover story contended that pro-life advocates are winning. It cited pro-life legislative successes, changes in public opinion and a decline in the numbers of abortion facilities and abortionists who perform abortions.
More information on the Marist poll results is available here at the Knights of Columbus website.


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One, I really am more interested in running games, or a team's ability to run, than I am in one runningback versus another. I definitely play fantasy football myself, but it's not the reason I get interested in football stats. Instead I want to know how good an offense is, and then secondarily how good a particular play is; whether Barry Sanders or Emmitt Smith is better is usually not a discussion I get into. As a result I don't mind so much that it's hard to disassociate how good a runningback is from how good the line is, or the faking, etc. From an evaluation perspective, if you can analyze one play being better than another, then you can pretty easily ask if it is scheme or execution, and thus concepts or players.
Second, I do prefer to focus on easily observable stats. Some of this is maybe my laziness, but that's one big appeal of yards per carry: I know it has little application on third down. (One yard could be a success if it converts for a first down, and eight yards could be a failure if it was third and ten -- but then what if the draw was a good call rather than an interception or a sack? I digress.) That is just mainly aimed at seemingly interesting stats that would be a practical nightmare, based on every play and then a subjective interpretation of how many guys he bounced off of or his vision and cutback versus contact, etc -- you get the idea.
Anyway, Bill Connelly of Football Outsiders (and RockMNation) had actually discussed this fairly recently:
Regular Varsity Numbers readers have probably become familiar with some of the basic VN concepts, namely PPP (Points Per Play) and the "+". PPP is a measure of explosiveness--the amount of Equivalent Points (EqPts) averaged per play. The "+" number compares an offense's output to the output expected against a given defense, and vice versa. With the "+" number, 100 is average, anything above 100 is good, and anything below 100 is bad.
Points Over Expected
Is there any way to use these concepts to come up with a good rushing measure? Of course! Meet POE (Points Over Expected), the collegiate stepchild of DYAR. Whereas a rusher's PPP+ would compare his EqPts output to what would be expected, and is therefore great for measuring an offense's overall effectiveness, POE is cumulative. It is a comparison of a rusher's total EqPts to the Expected EqPt total, subtracting the latter from the former.
POE = EqPts - Expected EqPts. . . .
Most Varsity Numbers measures, in one way or another, bounce output versus expected output. POE, a brother to PPP and cousin to S&P and S&P+, does just that. POE, which intends to both evaluate both per-play and cumulative success, could also be used to evaluate receivers and tight ends, but that will be hard without good "pass intended for _____" data (some college play-by-plays record detailed information in this regard, others do not). Right now, it is an RB-only figure, but it is a pretty good one.
Not sure I entirely buy this as the best method (requires getting into the nitty gritty of FO's methods), but overall this is a good starting spot. It tends to reward the explosive players.
Moving to the comments, a few highlights, though all were excellent. Brad said:
I don't think getting long runs is the only way a back can improve his average. He can also do so by getting less short gains.
Think of a back that gets 3 yds minimum on slightly over half of his carries and gets 6 yds on the rest. Then compare him to a back that gets loses a yard on a third of his carries gets 3 yards on a third of his carries and gains 10 yards on a third of his carries.
Both backs have a median rush of 3 yds, but the first back averages around 5 yds per carry while the second one averages only 4. However the second back clearly has more "Big play potential" because he gains 10 yards on 1/3 of his runs.
My point is that a back can improve his average vs median both by getting more long gains OR by having less short runs. Which of these two things that great backs do is a question for the data.
I should have conceptualized this better in the first place, because this helps explain why Reggie Bush has been such a mediocre rusher in the NFL. It's not his explosiveness (though he hasn't broken many very long runs), but his routine bad plays. It also is why Emmitt Smith and Barry Sanders are so hard to compare: Barry's stat line was full of negative plays and small gains, but checkered with the spectacular long runs. Emmitt Smith, the opposite. (And I don't think with Barry it was all just jump and bad blocking; it was also just his running style. Do you think he would have fit in well with the Denver Broncos "one-cut-and-go" philosophy? People say "oh, if he had played for them he would have had 3,000 yards but I'm not so sure.)
Tom points me to another good bit from Football Outsiders, this time by Mike Tanier, quoted at length:
The 4.0-4.1 yard average is an arithmetic mean: add up all the yards, divide by the attempts. The arithmetic mean is easily skewed by extremes in data. A 75-yard run can increase a starting running back's rushing average by several tenths of a point by the end of a season. This skewing always increases rushing averages: there are several 50+ yard rushes every year, but no 50+ yard losses on running plays.
We all know that a few big plays can make a mediocre running back's rushing average look great. But how much effect do long gains have on the league rushing average? The best way to see this is to break down every running play by distance. . . . The table reveals a surprising fact: the mean carry may yield four yards, but the median carry yields only three yards, and the data distribution is centered at two yards. . . .
Over 20 percent of running plays gain zero or one yards. Factor in losses, and over one-fourth of all runs result in negative or negligible yardage. The rushing average for the plays in the -4-to-10 yard range in 2005 was 2.95 yards per attempt. Long runs make up only about nine percent of all rushing plays, but they increase the league rushing average by over 40 percent. . . .
As a way of negating the importance of team strength as well as studying the contrasts between rushing styles, let's examine a pair of teammates from 2005.
Last season, Tatum Bell gained 920 yards and averaged 5.3 yards per carry. Mike Anderson gained 1,014 yards but averaged just 4.2 yards per carry. Despite the wide disparity in yards per carry, DVOA and DPAR ranked Anderson as the better back. Anderson was 37.0 points above replacement level, Bell 16.4. Anderson was 20.3 percent better than the average back, Bell just 7.6 percent.
Bell's rushing average was inflated by several long runs: he had a 68, 67, and 55 yard run in 2005, plus several 35-yard runs. Anderson's longest carry of the season was 44 yards, and that was his only run longer than 25 yards. We all know that Bell is a "home run threat" while Anderson is more consistent. But is it really fair to downgrade Bell because of his long runs? We're inclined to downgrade Bell somewhat because so much of his value is contained in a few plays. But is that really fair? After all, gaining four yards at a time is great and all, but big plays are pretty important, too. . . .
Anderson's yardage distribution is centered in the 2-3 yard range, while Bell's is centered in the 1-2 yard range, giving Anderson a full yard-per-play advantage on carry after carry. Bell's advantage, of course, is on runs of more than 10 yards. All but 6.5 percent of Anderson's runs gain from -4 to 10 yards, while 10.5 percent of Bell's runs are outside the chart (he only lost five yards on one play last season). Give them both 200 carries, and Bell will have eight more long runs than Anderson, and those runs will be longer than what Anderson can usually muster. But Anderson will gain an extra yard that Bell couldn't on dozens of other
runs. . . .
Anderson's in-the-box mean was 3.36 yards per attempt, noting again that his "box" is larger. Bell's was just 2.67. What's interesting is that we tend to think of backs like Anderson as "ordinary" while backs with Bell's big-play potential are held in higher esteem. But Bell's rushing distribution is more in line with the league norms than Anderson's. He's very good, but his contributions are typical of what backs around the league provide. Anderson, at least in 2005, was the unique player, providing hard-to-get, down-in, down-out production.
The difference between Bell and Anderson suggests that "cloud of dust" backs are more valuable than "boom or bust" backs, but we must be careful when using cheesy labels. Our perception of a back's production profile are often way off. How would you classify Marshall Faulk in his prime? Probably as a boom-or-bust back, albeit one with lots of boom and only a little bust.
But Faulk's running distributions show that in his prime he was much more than a big-play machine. . . .
Faulk's in-the-box mean was 3.37, a very good figure. What's more, his "box" only included 86 percent of his runs. Faulk had seven 12-yard runs, six 16-yard runs, and three 18-yard runs in 2000, giving him a very high percentage of 11-20 yard runs. But what's most remarkable about his production was his ability to avoid no-gainers and his above-average totals in the 3-5 yard range. Fast, shifty Faulk was just as good at using his skills to gain a yard or two as he was at burning defenses for long gains.
By contrast, [Jonathan] Stewart's ability to avoid losses and pick up two or three yards couldn't offset his complete lack of big-play potential. At first glance, Stewart's distribution looks similar to Anderson's. But his in-the-box mean of 2.8 is over a half-yard lower. The differences are subtle -- Anderson is a little more likely to gain five or six yards and a little less likely to lose yardage -- but they add up over a few hundred carries. And Stewart, like Anderson, concentrated 95 percent of his carries in the -4-to-10 yard range, so he had few 10-20 yard bursts to increase his productivity. Stewart, like Anderson, was providing a unique skill, which is why he was able to stay in the league for several years. Unlike Anderson, he wasn't a great exemplar of that skill, and the Football Outsiders metrics took him to task for it. . . .
Teams don't generate rushing yards in three-, four-, or five-yard bursts. They gain it through punctuated equilibrium, waiting through dozens of minimal gains for a few big plays per game.
And those big plays aren't that big. We've focused on gains of ten or less in this article, ignoring the 10.5 percent or so of plays that yield more yardage. The vast majority of those runs gain 11-20 yards: 6.9 percent overall. Almost 25 percent of the rushing yardage gained in the NFL is generated on runs of 11-20 yards. There were 960 such runs last year: 30 per team, or just over two per team per game. Amazingly nearly 10 percent of all rushing yardage is generated on runs of 30 or more yards, plays which occur about four times per year for a typical team.
These distribution breakdowns are so interesting that they might seduce us into making some wacky conclusions. Keep in mind that all of these averages and distribution patterns are situation dependent. . . .
Without further study, we shouldn't leap to grand conclusions. But we know this much: if we expect to gain four or five yards on every running play, we're going to be disappointed most of the time. No wonder passing totals have been creeping up for decades. If all a handoff gets you is two yards and a cloud of dust, you might as well throw the ball.
Lots going on here, but it mostly just reinforces what we know: Backs and teams have different styles, and it is not always easy to compare them; you want a guy who (a) does not lose yardage, (b) consistently gets positive yardage, and (c) is a big-play threat. They don't always come that way, so it is interesting that Tanier and FO conclude that the consistent back is simply better than the big-play threat. I'd like to see more to support that -- i.e. that the "dozens of first downs" or extra yards Anderson might have pulled down for the team were worth more than Tatum Bell's big plays. I'm not saying I disagree, but that it is interesting. That kind of conclusion could have troubling implications for a guy like, say, Barry Sanders, or moreso Reggie Bush.
Chase of the PFR Blog points out marginal yards, and adds:
I looked at rushing yards over 3.0 yards per carry. However, as the author has implied, I've begun shifting my focus away from yards per carry.
Rushing first downs is a key part of evaluating a running game. Without play by play information, I'd want to focus on rushing first downs, rushing yards, rushing TDs and carries.
I think this is good; rushing first downs should be part of the evaluation. According to CFBStats, last season's top first-down teams in college football are an expected bunch:
1. Air Force
2. Tulsa
3. Navy
4. Nevada (tie)
4. Oklahoma State (tie)
6. Oregon
8. Florida
9. Oklahoma
10. Georgia Tech
As a side note, I do think yards per carry is most useful on first down, and CFB Stats (as well as the pro-football reference site), has a ready breakdown of rushing stats by down, for all teams. For example, the yards per carry of the top 5 teams in the country last year, limited solely to first down, were:
1. Nevada 6.95
2. Louisiana-Lafayette 6.77
3. Florida 6.76
4. Navy 1843 6.12
5. Oregon 1676 5.96
Each team had over 1,600 yards on first down alone (everyone bud Oregon had over 1,800, and Nevada over 2,000). And those averages -- yes I just pasted that thing from FO saying you can't solely look at averages -- indicates that these teams had a lot of favorable down and distances to convert (Louisiana-Lafayette, the one seemingly strange entry, was in the top 15 of total offense last year despite not being a great throwing team).
In the end ... I have to think about this question some more. I think we're moving in the right direction, as, again, part of my motivation is to find handy and easy to use stats (thus one reason I dislike the idea of some kind of "running back efficiency rating" like they use with quarterbacks). I agree that the debate is going to be between styles of running game (or running back), as well as situation. I would imagine that teams like Oregon or Georgia Tech are going to have much different looking rushing distributions than, say, Wisconsin. But we're on our way down the path to the end.
End note: I'll be on vacation this week. I have a couple of posts set to go up, but otherwise I'll be out of pocket until next weekend/week. Cheers.


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Back in September, HURDL released its final report on our work assessing Mali's Agrometeorological Advisory program – an effort, conceived and run by the Government of Mali, to deliver weather and climate information to farmers to improve agricultural outcomes in the country. You'd think this would be a straightforwardly good idea – you know, more information (or indeed any information) being better than none. So our findings were a bit stunning:
- As we found in our preliminary report, less than 20% of those with access to the advisories are actually using them
- Nearly everyone using the advisories is a man
- Nearly everyone using the advisories is already relatively well-off
- The advisories were most used in the parts of the country where precipitation is most secure (see map below).
This was, to say the least, a set of surprising findings. And, on their surface, they suggest that the program is another example of development failure: a project that only reaches those who least need the help it is providing.
But that conclusion only holds if this program was oriented toward development and adaptation in the first place…and it was not. The program was established in 1981 as an effort to address conditions of acute food insecurity closely linked to severe drought. The goal was simple: use short-term and seasonal advisories to help farmers make better decisions under stress and boost food availability in Mali. This program, in other words, was an effort to address a particular, acute problem (food insecurity linked to extreme drought) through a very specific means (boosting food availability). This was not a development project, it was a humanitarian response to a crisis. And as such, it was brilliant – and each of the findings above demonstrate why.
- The goal was to rapidly boost yields of grains (and cotton), for which men have most decision-making authority.
- The goal was to rapidly boost overall yields of grains to improve availability within Mali, and therefore targeting the wealthy farmers who had the access to equipment and animal traction necessary to use the advisories made sense.
- The goal was to rapidly boost grain production…and much more grain is grown in the wetter parts of Mali than in the dryer areas in the north.
In short, the project was never intended to address development goals – it was supposed to address a particular aspect of a humanitarian crisis through particular means, and its design targeted exactly the right decision-makers/actors to achieve that goal. Indeed, one could argue that the rather narrow use of advisories speaks to how well designed this humanitarian intervention was. In short, the gendered/wealth-dependent character of advisory use, and the fact they are most used in areas that are already very agriculturally productive, are not bugs in this project: they are features!
The problem, then, is not with the design of the project, but the fact it continued for more than 30 years, and some 25 years after the end of the droughts. As a narrowly-focused effort to address a particular, short-term humanitarian crisis, the gendered/wealth-based outcomes of the project were acceptable trade-offs to achieve higher grain yields. But over 30 years, and without the justification of an acute crisis, it is likely this project has served to unnecessarily exacerbate agricultural inequality in rural southern Mali.
HURDL is now engaged in a project to redesign this program, to shift it from a (now unnecessary) humanitarian assistance effort to a development/adaptation project. With this shift in priorities comes a shift in how we view the outcomes of the program – the very things that made it an effective humanitarian assistance program (gendered and income-based inequality) are now aspects of the project that we must change to ensure that the widest number of farmers possible have access to information they can use in their livelihoods decisions as we move into conditions of greater economic and environmental uncertainty. In short, we now have to bridge the DRR and Humanitarian Response/Development and Adaptation divide that has so plagued those of us concerned with the situation of those in the Global South. This will be tremendously challenging, but through this process we hope to not only work with Malian colleagues to design and deliver a development and adaptation version of this program to Malian farmers, but also to learn more about how to bridge the particular time/scope emphases of these two assistance arenas.


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"To the fatty running on the Westview track..." begins the Facebook screed that Closer would have us believe is inspiring, one for the ages. Closer has some things to learn.
"The message begins in a typically condescending manner. It accuses the overweight runner of "footslogging in the wrong direction", calls them out for wanting to "stop twice a lap" and points out the "sweat" that "drenches" their body.
But then, all of a sudden, the tone changes - and we find ourselves confronted with a seriously inspirational messages for all the would-be runners out there:
"To the fatty running on the Westview track this afternoon:
You, whose feet barely lift off the ground as you trudge around the track. You, who keeps to the outside lane, footslogging in the wrong direction. You, who stops for water breaks every lap, and who would probably stop twice a lap if there were bleachers on both sides. You, whose gaze drops to your feet every time we pass. You, whose sweat drenches your body after you leave, completing only a single, 20-minute mile.
There's something you should know: You f**ing rock.
"Every shallow step you take, you carry the weight of more than two of me, clinging to your bones, begging to be shaken off.
"Each lap you run, you're paying off the debt of another midnight snack, another desser, another beer..
"It's 20 degrees outside, but you haven't let that stop your regimen.
"This isn't your first day out here, and it certainly won't be your last. You've started a journey that lasts a lifetime, and you've started it at least 12 days before your New Year's resolution kicks in.
"You run without music, and I can only imagine the mantras running through your mind as you heave your ever-shrinking mass around the next lap. Let's go, feet. Shut up, legs. F**k off, fat.
"If you'd only look up from your feet the next time we pass, you'd see my gaze has no condescension in it.
"I have nothing but respect for you. You've got this."
We have to admit that, after reading that, we're suddenly feeling a LOT more inclined to lace up our running shoes and give pounding those pavements a go!
Yes, how inspiring it must be to get called Fatty! To deal with assumptions about your diet & health! To have half the internet patting some dude on the back about beng your backhanded cheerleader because his tone graduated from contemptuous to patronizing! No no, this isn't condescending in the least.
The object of the missive has submitted a reply. It's predictably awesome.
To the man who judged me on the Westview track,
I see that you wrote a Facebook status about my journey and me. It described me on the track and from what I gather it was supposed to inspire after a little insult. It went viral.
So let me tell you what I think of your post…
First off I would suggest you not judge me at all. You have my journey all messed up. My journey did not start twelve days ago. It started over a year ago. You see me at 300 pounds but what you do not know is I was over 400 pounds. You did not know this because I was embarrassed to run in front of other people. So I would come to this track when no one else was around. Sometimes I would go for a couple of minutes. Sometimes I would go for four minutes. It all started when I went for 48 seconds my first time running. Yes, I timed it. Yes I was upset. And yes, I promised it would never happen again.
When I was over 400 pounds and decided to make the commitment to change my life I would wake up and look in the mirror. I would find at least 100 negative things about my body. All the descriptions you made about me…I was even harder on myself.
Then after losing a few pounds I looked in the mirror again. I did not look at my body. I looked in my eyes. I saw determination and character. I saw a man who did not want to be an inspiration for others but one for himself. I was that man.
Your whole post insults me like no end. I do not eat midnight snacks or drink beer. You probably think all "fat" people do this. Well, we do not. I ate better than most at 300 pounds. In fact, I have not had a drink in well over 20 years.
I look down because I see you stare at me all the time. I do not want to give you the satisfaction of looking into my eyes. There are people who were supporting me all along. Not people who made up fictional parts of my life.
I also do not listen to music because I hear everything. I hear the laughter and I hear the snickers. They are never about me except they always are. I have been overweight my whole life. I have not had my blinders on for some time.
There are no mantras going through my head. When I run it is clear. I have no anger or happiness. I am there to complete a task. I am good at that.
You fooled people on Facebook but you have not fooled me. You do not have respect for my journey because you do not know it. I have told my story to thousands of people. I have been told that I have inspired many as well. Not because of the way I run but because of the person I am. Not because of my 200 pound weight loss but because of the words that I have had inside for years.
Many of us have been that person being judged and then twirled into some weird inspirational story. I was judged at the gym at 400 pounds. I was laughed at in Panera at 350 pounds. I was embarrassed at 300 pounds and honestly I was the same person at 195 pounds as I was at 420 pounds.
I tell people now that weight loss should not make you love yourself more. That is the mistake I made.
So next time you look at me on that track do yourself a favor. Look away. I do not look like I once did. I do not want to be your inspiration or your motivation.
I am a runner. I was a runner at 420 pounds and I am a runner today.
And runners do one thing.
They run. Not write about other runners.
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Stumbles and Mumbles
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"As I stumble back across the years of my life" are the first words of Marlon Brando's autobiography. Is the metaphor Brando's or that of his co-author, Robert Lindsey? How would we know? Brando's stumbling, his mistakes, mismarriages, vanishings, and comebacks, are as much part of his legend as his mumbling. Certainly no one talks about Brando without mentioning the mumble. "As I mumble back across the years of my life" would also have been a good opening.
Both monumental Brando books are about a monument, guided tours round the fences of a myth. Brando's own story is about a little boy lost, who never recovered from his parents' neglect of him and his sisters; from his father's remoteness and his mother's disappearances into alcohol. Brando may have got a few things wrong in life, but we all get things a little wrong ("With age, I've come to realize that nothing is wholly right or wholly wrong"). He used to be full of anger, but isn't any more. He was looking for love all the time.
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligations, if I had any, to myself and my species.
"Myself and my species" pretty much gives the tone of the book. On page ix Robert Lindsey speaks respectfully of his collaborator's "musings," but by page x they have become "meanderings," and you can see how the shift would occur. "I finally came to the conclusion that in the end being Jewish was a cultural phenomenon…." Fortunately for Brando if not for the book, Lindsey is also adept in the sort of unedited pileup where you can come to conclusions finally and in the end. He had acquired, he says, "a passionate disdain for the shallow and self-centered egotism and puerility that afflicts most movie actors I had encountered." That self-centered egotism probably is the worst kind.
But Lindsey's unlikely implication about Brando is not entirely wrong. Brando is not shallow and puerile like those other actors. He is deep and puerile, addicted throughout his life to practical jokes that only he finds hilarious, but also capable of tenderness and insight and even discretion, although he does his best to talk himself out of these things. Of a man who used to let him ride horses when he was a child, Brando says, "Wes Mickler, born someplace, died on Bradley Road. He never said what happened in between." Brando says he liked the "unmanaged" faces (his italics) of the Tahitians he saw in the National Geographic as a boy, and the word tells us more than most of his meanderings about what he means by freedom. He understands hypocrisy and manipulation from the inside—"I suppose bribery…
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Nancyfest: Gentleman's Fancy Socks and Canal du Midi Socks
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Progress continues on the Canal du Midi socks. I've made it down to the heel flap on sock #2 and there's hope that I'll have the pair done this weekend!
In the meantime, I cast on for a pair of the Gentleman's Fancy Socks from Knitting Vintage Socks. The yarn is Lang Jawoll from Knitsense! Stash knitting too! I can't read and work a twisted stitch pattern very well so I went looking for a good rib pattern. These will be for my stepfather-in-law. My MIL and sFIL spend their summers in Montana so I'd like to have their socks done before they leave in May.
What do you think of the color? Is it too bright to be a manly sock?
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Reserve your school's gymnasium or cafeteria or work with a local pub. Charge an entrance fee or ask students to collect pledges from friends, family, student organizations or local businesses to participate. Determine a time frame for the marathon — we suggest twelve hours. Ask local businesses to donate refreshments or door prizes for the participants. Think of fun themes for each hour (e.g., the 70s hour) and devise activities to keep dancers motivated (e.g., play the hokey pokey, do the limbo, etc.).
Ask each dorm, fraternity, sorority, sports team and student organization to have one representative volunteer to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Arrange to hold the auction at a local pub, create a small program listing the major and hobbies of each participant, and get "dinner for two" gift certificates donated by local restaurants for each couple.
Post flyers announcing the tournament. Specifically invite fraternities, sororities, dorms and other student organizations to participate. Ask a local restaurant to donate refreshments or prizes for the winning team. Charge an admission fee for each team. You can also sell official tournament T-shirts.
One local college has a bowl-a-thon as a Greek Week activity each year. They collect pledges based on the number of pins they hope to knock down. If they collect 5 cents per pin per sponsor and score 100, they'll collect a $5 donation per sponsor. The student that raises the most money wins a prize. Ask your local bowling alley to donate a few lanes for the event. You could also charge a flat fee for each player to participate.
Contact a popular local band and plan a concert. Hold it on campus or at a local bar that will donate the cover charge to the Foundation.
Charge a $5 entrance fee or have students collect pledges to participate. Put flyers up in local businesses inviting the community to participate. Get refreshments donated from local restaurants. If you ask participants to collect pledges to participate, give the top fundraiser a prize.
Elect a few people to be the deputies. Students pay to have their friends and professors arrested. Those arrested are taken to a roped-off spot on campus. They can pay bail or stay for their entire sentence, approximately 10 minutes.
Ask each student to make a $3 or $5 donation at the door.
Charge participants a $10 entry fee or ask them to collect a minimum in pledges to participate. Set a time limit for the contest and ask local restaurants or grocery stores to donate the hot dogs and buns. One local organization called their event "Dogapolooza."
For a $1 donation, students purchase a small candy bar and write a secret message to a friend. Each message is attached to the candy bar and delivered on Halloween, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, etc.
Get a rocking chair and have members of your organization take turns for a 24-hour period rocking in the student union. Charge participants $5 to rock for 5 minutes or have participants collect pledges for their hour of rocking.
Create and sell construction paper stars or Make-A-Wish star cut-outs for $1 each.
Encourage people on campus to donate $1. Devise creative ways for 100 percent participation.
During midterms or finals, sell "survivor kits" full of munchies to keep up students' energy during late-night study sessions.
Solicit chefs to donate their time and cook at someone's home for a party. Another idea is to have a chef's tasting event. Charge admission or pay for cooking lessons.
Solicit various notables (coaches, professors, local celebrities, deejays, etc.) to have dinner at people's homes in exchange for a contribution to the Foundation.
Include other campus organizations in the competition. Structured like a chili cook-off, voting is done by collecting money in a jar and donating the funds to Make-A-Wish.
Hold a recycled can collection on campus and donate the proceeds to Make-A-Wish.
Talent show, fashion show, dating game, scavenger hunt, giant twister match, spaghetti dinner and campus garage sale.
If you are interested in sponsoring an internal event at your business, organization, or association, please contact your local chapter to explore possibilities, learn about the brand licensing requirements and find out how the chapter can help support your efforts.
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We found 1 episode of Opposable Thumbs with the tag "ceramics".
Episode 47: Make Me Cry
December 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 2 mins
acrylic, art, cassette tapes, ceramics, challenge, chicago, cnc, creative, creativity, hachiko, influences, los angeles, making, materials, mdf, mixtape, molding, molds, multiples, nfc tags, nudity, plaster, podcasts, porcelain, process, q lazzarus, qr codes, rhino, spotify
Madeline Vaccaro is our guest this episode! Chicago in tha house!
We talk about Maddie's work and the challenge of making multiples. It's so hard to re-make a thing over and over with the same amount of enthusiasm as you had for the first one. We also talk about Hachiko the dog * sniff *. Also, Taylor and Rob are addicted to podcasts.
Taylor merges the new-schoolness of NFC tags to re-invent a 20th Century past time.
Need a good cry? Maddie's project has got you covered. If it doesn't make you cry you're probably a replicant.
Rob refurbs an antique to make a cool gift for a great friend. "They see me knollin... They hatin'..."
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I remember sitting in one of my university classes, it was Game Programming Techniques which I was giddy with excitement to be in, and being proposed a simple yet poignant question: how many of you have tried to code a game? The room was filled with students who had spent much of their past few years at university coding but out of the dozens of people there only a few raised their hands. The answer as to why was the same for all of us, we simply did not know how to go about it. Fast forward to today and thanks to tools like GameMaker and Unity it's possible for anyone, even non-coders, to be able to create a production quality title. Lilly Looking Through is a great example of how these tools enable people to create, without the necessary background in flipping bits.
Lilly is just like any other ordinary kid, letting her curiosity run wild as she ventures around her own little world. One day though something strange catches her eye, a piece of cloth that appears to move with a life of its own. However she can never seem to get close to it, the devious strip of cloth always flitting away at the last possible second. Then suddenly the cloth seemingly takes a dark turn, snatching up Lilly's brother Ro and whisking him away faster than Lilly can run. What follows is Lilly's journey to get her brother back, taking her through all sorts of wonderful and whimsical worlds.
Lilly Looking Through has a decidedly Dinsey-esque feeling about it, with the backgrounds all being lovingly hand drawn. It reminded me of the many similar types of games I used to play as a kid like The Magic School Bus and Mario is Missing, albeit with the additional twist of all the animation being done using 3D models. The developers behind Lilly Looking Through should be commended for blending the two elements seamlessly as traditionally it's usually very obvious where the distinction lies, something that I find quite distracting. The background music is also quite enjoyable, being a great backdrop to the sumptuous visuals.
At its core Lilly Looking Through is a 2.5D point and click adventure game albeit without the usual trimmings of an inventory system and the requisite try this item with every other item to see if you can progress. This is quite typical of the indie scene where general mechanics are left to one side in favour of other things and, in all honesty, it's refreshing to play a game that doesn't have a cornucopia of things to do in it. Thus the majority of your time in Lilly Looking Through will be spent solving puzzles and drinking in the scenery you find yourself in.
The one twist in Lilly Looking Through's puzzle mechanics is the use of her goggles you pick up early in the game. These allow you to switch between two different times in the same world, allowing you to accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible. It's by no means an unique or innovative mechanic but it does do its job well by making you think about how to use the two different worlds effectively. The rest of the puzzles build off this mechanic, playing on the notion of time passing and setting up things accordingly.
For the most part the puzzles are challenging, encouraging you to look at the scenery around you and figure out how everything interacts in order to unlock the next section. Indeed my favourite puzzle of the lot (shown below) required you to initially play around to figure out what everything did and only then could you approach it scientifically. However the puzzles that rely on understanding colour theory are, to be blunt, unintuitive and just frustrating. I have a basic understanding of how colours mix together but I know that there's a major difference between mixing paint and mixing light and trying to figure it out intuitively just doesn't work. It would be ok if this was just a single puzzle but the last few all rely on the colour mixing mechanic.
The story is also pretty simplistic and whilst I'm not adverse to an absence of dialogue (indeed games like Kairo are a powerful experience) it did feel somewhat hollow. I think much of this stems from the fact that Lilly Looking Through is heavily focused on the visual aspect of the game, and in that respect it does well, however it's just not enough to carry the game on its own. Don't get me wrong I think it's still a great little story, especially if I'm guessing right in that their target demographic tend towards the younger generation, but it really is the bare minimum to keep it moving forward.
Lilly Looking Through is a gorgeous little game, one that rewards the player for being inquisitive with a visual display that is quite impressive. The early puzzle mechanics are fun and enjoyable however the later stages that assume some knowledge of colour theory unfortunately let it down, leading to a frustrating experience that feels more like luck than anything else. Still I think it's a great little game, one that is probably best played by your youngest relative while you watch from the sidelines.
Rating: 7.5/10
Lilly Looking Through is available on PC and iOS right now for $9.99. Game was played on the PC with around 2 hours total play time.


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Vienna is a city with a rich cultural and artistic history, where you can wander among Caravaggios and Rembrandts at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, or experience the aristocratic life at the lavish palaces of Schönbrunn and Hofburg. Vienna isn't all palaces and museums, as a large part of Viennese modern culture involves spending hours inside coffeehouses. Foodies will love the 1.5 km-long Naschmarkt, a street market that offers cuisine from around the world.


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Apple's former chief and founder Steve Jobs called for a "holy war" against Google and its Android operating system, according to emails at Apple's patent-infringement suit with Samsung.
The emails were shown by Samsung's lawyers in opening arguments at the latest patent-infringement trial between Apple and Samsung in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif, according to the Wall Street Journal. In a 2010 email to Apple employees, Jobs called the email, "2011: Holy War with Google."
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In other emails, Jobs wrote "Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm for too long (innovator's dilemma)" and "Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology" to connect and synchronize features across all devices. Jobs was becoming fearful that Google had created an operating system that was becoming a rival -- and it did, creating open-source operating system that gave manufacturers a cheap and easy way to compete with the iPhone and iPad.
Samsung's attorney John Quinn showed the emails as part of its legal strategy -- that Apple's really fighting Google and Android, not Samsung. Four of the five patents that Apple accuses of infringement were developed by Android.
Apple denied the statement. "Don't be misled by that. This case is not about Google," Apple's lawyer Harold McElhinny said in opening statements.
Samsung's argument is a compelling one, but we don't know if it's enough to cause a much-needed win for the Samsung team.


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The Young in One Another's Arms (Little Sister's Classics) (Paperback)
Arsenal Pulp Press, 9781551521817, 256pp.
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
"Make no mistake about it--Jane Rule is one of the best writers we have."--Margaret Laurence
"Lesbian identity itself is not so much subsumed into the community as kept whole within it . . . not singled out as an angle of vision any more or less valid than others."--Marilyn Schuster, Feminist Studies
Jane Rule's 1977 novel The Young in One Another's Arms is set at the end of the Vietnam War in and around a boarding house in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver. Ruth, a middle-aged woman accustomed to tragedy in her own life, cares for the young and changing boarders of her house as a mother and guide.
First published by Doubleday and reprinted by The Naiad Press, The Young in One Another's Arms is about communities and the differences between people that allow them to come together. Race, gender, sexuality and politics are reappearing themes among the characters. Young defectors from the American war gather in the house, barely able to articulate their bewilderment at life's challenges. In Rule's sparse but generous prose, the players dance around each others' lives, moving fluidly, loving, maturing, finding solace or heartbreak, each one touching the lives of all the others. The author's passion for life and stoic sensibility are evident on every page. It's a warm, sophisticated novel celebrating life in all its diversity.
The novel, one of the first ever to depict lesbians in a positive light, won the Canadian Authors Association Best Novel of the Year Award in 1978.
With an introduction by novelist Katherine V. Forrest, author of Curious Wine and Daughters of a Coral Dawn.
Little Sister's Classics is a new series of books from Arsenal Pulp Press, reviving lost and out-of-print gay and lesbian classic books, both fiction and nonfiction. The books in the series are produced in conjunction with Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, the heroic Vancouver bookstore well-known for its anti-censorship efforts.


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Union Pacific Railroad Invests More Than $10 Million For Track Improvements To Its North Central Colorado Line
Omaha, Neb., September 22, 2011 Union Pacific Railroad will continue improving the transportation infrastructure in Colorado by investing more than $10 million in the rail line that runs from near the east portal of Moffat Tunnel to near Kremmling, Colo. Various projects over almost 70 miles of the line include removing and installing more than 55,600 ties, as well as renewing the surfaces at 51 road crossings. Crews will also spread nearly 33,600 tons of rock ballast to help provide a more stable roadbed and replace more than 2 miles of rail in various curves.
The curve rail and crossing surface projects began at the end of June and the tie project began Sept. 15. All projects are scheduled to be completed by the end of December.
Union Pacific plans to invest approximately $3.3 billion in capital during 2011, which supports America's current and future freight transportation needs and enhances the safety and efficiency of the railroad's 32,000-mile network. These investment projects are examples of Union Pacific's continuing efforts to improve transportation infrastructure and support its customers through strategic investments.
According to the Association of American Railroads, America's largest railroads keep pace with the top nine states in terms of highway spending, and they do it with private, not taxpayer, money. In 2010, capital spending by Class I railroads totaled $9.8 billion, and the industry plans to make $12 billion in capital spending during 2011. All told, freight rail companies have invested $480 billion to maintain and modernize the national rail network since 1980.
Improved and additional rail capacity benefits everyone. It allows freight rail service to grow, helping to build a cleaner environment. Union Pacific can move one ton of freight nearly 500 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel, and, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, freight trains are nearly four times more fuel efficient than trucks. Motorists also benefit from reduced congestion on highways as a single Union Pacific train can remove up to 300 trucks off our roads.
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Union Pacific Corporation owns one of America's leading transportation companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country. Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers and provides Americans with a fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly and safe mode of freight transportation. Union Pacific's diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Energy, Industrial Products and Intermodal. The railroad emphasizes excellent customer service and offers competitive routes from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways. Union Pacific connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major gateways to Mexico.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 6 (UPI) -- Jack Johnson scored his first goal since being obtained by Columbus Tuesday in helping the Blue Jackets edge Phoenix 3-2.
Johnson was playing his fifth game since coming to Columbus from Los Angeles and his goal 3:54 into the contest gave the Blue Jackets a 2-0 lead.
Columbus, which has the NHL's worst record, has won three in a row for the first time this season.
R.J. Umberger opened the scoring for the Blue Jackets 31 seconds into the game and Derek MacKenzie gave Columbus a 3-1 lead 3:02 into the middle period.
Steve Mason stopped 38-of-40 shots for Columbus, closing the door after allowing Keith Yandle's slap shot to get past him with 3:34 to go in the second.
Mike Smith gave up two goals on seven shots before being replaced in goal by Jason LaBarbera.
Phoenix has lost four in a row, a skid that has cost the Coyotes first place in the Pacific Division and has jeopardized their bid for a playoff berth.


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